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Update 201.1 Hotfix

Hello Heisters!


Today we are releasing two fixes to the update from yesterday. All of us here at OVERKILL wish you a great holiday, a happy new year and that you all stay safe and take care of each other.

We hope you enjoy the Christmas event and all the new content in the game.
Have some great heisting everyone and we'll see you on CrimeNet.

Happy holidays.
OVERKILL_Tobias OVERKILL - a Starbreeze Studio.


Update 201.1 Changelog
Update size: 224.4MB


General
  • Fixed an issue where the Christmas SFX for the cloakers played at a very low volume.
  • Fixed an issue where the Compact Tactical Box Sight is not given to the player when they start. It will now give one copy of the weapon mod.

PAYDAY 2: Little heisters' Holiday!

‘Tis the season for taking

With the snow heavy on the roof of the buildings all over Washington DC, a strange figure is seen creeping around the neighborhood. He has a big sack of loot and he is bringing it back to the safe house. Gather close my dear heisters and see what he has for you. There are some awesome gifts for all the naughty heisters out there.

Gift of the year

Is there anything that says December 2020 more than a mask? No, no there isn't. That is why we’ll start off this update with some masks, more masks, and even more masks. Did you notice the cool-looking masks in Buluc’s Mansion? Well, now you can wear them as well. We bring all 8 masks straight into your inventory.

Did you think 8 more masks were a lot of masks? We didn’t. Were you happy with normal masks? We weren’t. We bring you one extra mask, a mega special mask to round off our adventures in Mexico. Find some secret presents hidden all over Mexico to unlock the awesome Mega Sangres mask. Can you achieve the feat of finding all the presents?

Looking ahead

There is nothing as cool as a skilled sniper shot, especially if you take the shot without any magnification aid. If you feel iron sights is the way to go when you need to take those extras long shots then you can now equip an iron sight on the “Bernetti Rangehitter Sniper Rifle”.

If you rather want to make sure that every shot counts and want to make sure you hit those sweet headshots every time we get you covered. With a new red dot sight, you can make sure your shots are true and deadly. You can now equip the “Compact Tactical Box Sight” on your favorite weapon and celebrate the holidays in the only way that counts, with a body count.

I need your clothes, your gun and your jingle bells

Do you want your weapons to spew out season-appropriate holiday joy in addition to hot lead? Then we got the weapon color for you. Bring on the festive spirit with the “Winter Cheer” weapon color and spread the joy to someone.

The mysterious seasonal figure might have brought a lot of gifts in this update. But a true heister knows there is always some extra loot. With a new Santa outfit (payday style) you too can feel in tune with the season. The suit comes in two variants "Ho Ho Heister" and "Dirty Santa", they are listed as two separate suits in the interface.

We round off the list of content for this update with a new stinger. You can now choose to use the seasonal appropriate join stinger “Jingle Schwing”. You don’t even need to go infamous to use it.

Heisting through the snow

Any heisters with new toys will want to jump into action and we expect you are no different. May we suggest any of the holiday-themed heists we have in the game. All these heists will give an extra exp bonus if played during the holiday season. This also includes the seasonal versions of Hoxton Breakout and Breakin' Feds that make a return but also one extra heist that has been decorated for the season.

Normalized Skin Drop Chance

We are normalizing the drop chances of our weapon skins, this will address issues where some skins were very rare despite being of blue or purple tier and some legendaries dropped with higher frequency than lower-tiered skins. From now on you can be sure that any skin will have the same drop chance as any other skin of the same tier, no matter what safe it may come from. Stat-boosted skins will still be rarer than their non-stat-boosted counterparts. For example; this does mean that you have an equal chance to receive a blue skin from Community Safe 4 as you are to receive a blue skin from the Biker Safe.

FBI Files and Skins

All our updates are not confined to the game. Go and check out PAYDAY 2 FBI Files. We have added support for Chinese, Japanese and Korean as well as the “Black Market”. FBI uses this nifty feature to keep tabs on the underground market for customized weapons among Washington's criminals.

You can read more about the holiday update and it’s content as well as see some nice preview images on our website: Little heisters' Holiday!


Chains is a red-nosed heister, his mask is really nice.
You'll need to hit the floor now, he'll never ask you twice.
OVERKILL_Tobias OVERKILL - a Starbreeze Studio.

Update 201 Changelog
Update size: 174.7MB

General
  • Fixed an issue where the effect of night vision goggles would be permanent if attempting to turn off the night vision goggles and picking up a bag at the same time.
  • Changed Japanese translations to use English for job/heist names, character names, difficulties as well as the word Infamy.
  • Change the link used to show what mod a player is using from paydaymods to modworkshop.net.
  • Fixed an issue where the hair and/or masks would disappear from certain NPC's when their heads were close to the edge of the screen.
  • Changed the link attached to the tablet in the safehouse from pd2stash to fbi.overkillsoftware.com.
  • Added the ability to equip angled sights on the default sniper scope.
  • Fixed issues with skins covering the lenses of gadget/laser modules.
  • Tweaked Bernetti pistol sights to be green again.
Character
  • Fixed some clipping issues with the Balaclava mask for Sydney and Houston.
  • Fixed an issue where the heisters arms would be missing while wearing the Repairman outfit.
  • Fixed an issue where the heisters arms would be missing while wearing The Casual Formal outfit.
  • Fixed an issue where the heisters arms would be missing while wearing The Classic outfit.
  • Fixed various issues with the Duelist outfit on certain characters.
  • Fixed a graphical issue on the Duelist outfit that occurred with certain male characters.
  • Fixed some graphical issues on the Tuxedo outfit when equipped by Bonnie.
  • Fixed graphical issues with the Improved Combined Tactical Vest when equipped by Ethan or Hila.
  • Fixed graphical issues with The Avenging Gunman outfit.
  • Fixed a graphical issue with the Molten gloves.
  • Fixed graphical issues that occurred when the Molten gloves were equipped with the Impresario outfit.
  • Fixed a graphical issue on the Cosmos gloves when charging a melee attack.
  • Fixed a graphical issue that occurred with the Cosmos gloves when equipped by Bonnie.
  • Fixed a graphical issue with the Cosmos gloves that could be seen when using the halt action with Bonnie.
Heists
  • Fixed an area on day 1 of The Biker Heist that could possibly soft-lock the player.
  • Fixed a spot behind a couch where players could get stuck on Border Crossing.
  • Added a collision to prevent players from getting stuck between a wall and a chair on Branch Bank.
  • Fixed some waypoints on Buluc’s Mansion for loud gameplay that never appeared after reaching the office.
  • Fixed an issue on Buluc’s Mansion with the list prop for the guards that was floating in the air.
  • Added pre-planning costs to assets on Buluc’s Mansion.
  • Prevented cops from spawning near the boat when the front gate spawn is used on Buluc’s Mansion.
  • Added extra AI navigation blockers on Buluc’s Mansion in the closed basement path.
  • Fixed an issue on Buluc’s Mansion where the player could see through a wall.
  • Fixed an issue on Buluc’s Mansion near the office, where loot bags could fall through the floor.
  • Fixed an issue on Buluc’s Mansion where the gate opening animation would play twice if the swat van arrived while the thermite was burning.
  • Fixed an issue on Buluc’s Mansion where lamps in the secret meeting room did not sync between host and client.
  • Adjusted the cafeteria spycam location on Buluc’s Mansion.
  • Added collision to a pair of glass doors, located in the inner sanctum on Buluc’s Mansion.
  • Fixed an issue on Buluc’s Mansion where the keypad numbers, for the wine cellar door, were unreadable in Low/Very Low Texture Quality settings.
  • Fixed a visual effect issue with the flare on Buluc’s Mansion, used to signal the helicopter, for Low/Very Low Texture Quality settings.
  • Fixed an issue where the masks of the guards on Buluc’s Mansion would reduce in quality when the player marked them.
  • Fixed an issue on Buluc’s Mansion where waypoints to the inner sanctum would appear even after players had already discovered them the entrances.
  • Fixed an issue on Buluc’s Mansion where a guard's path would incorrectly lead him to areas that should not be accessible.
  • Fixed an exploit on Counterfeit where the level could be prevented from going loud.
  • Fixed an issue where the fountain on Diamond Heist, would disappear when viewed at certain distances.
  • Updated pre-planning costs of assets on Golden Grin Casino.
  • Fixed an issue on Henry’s Rock where a player could get stuck inside the crate that is delivered by the crane.
  • Fixed a progression blocker on Hoxton Revenge where killing the FBI boss from the basement before opening the vault would not cause the level to go loud.
  • Fixed an issue on San Martín Bank where a police officer's badge was not visible at certain distances.
  • Fixed an issue on San Martín Bank where the VFX and SFX from drilling a door would remain if the drill was interrupted by a saw.
  • Fixed an issue on Shadow Raid where a guard's body could fall into an unreachable area, blocking the player from answering the pager.
  • Moved a stack of boxes on Slaughterhouse to prevent players from getting stuck in a container.
  • Fixed an issue on The Big Bank where a vault door could be opened again using a set of keys if previously opened with a saw.
  • Fixed an issue on Car Shop where tied up civilians would clip through walls and be seen from outside the building.
  • Fixed an issue on The White House where a player could get stuck between the cameras in the press room.
  • Fixed a wall missing collision on Alaskan Deal.

PAYDAY 2: Crimson Shore Hotfix Update 200.1

Hello Heisters!

We have finally reached the end of our adventures in Mexico and brought an end to Buluc. We are very happy with the reception we’ve seen on Update 200 and the Crimson Shore release. With an update like this we usually have a hotfix the day after, containing the most critical issues, but this time we felt we could wait one day and bring a much larger patch today instead.

We also updated the PAYDAY 2 FBI Files with new language options. You can now view the site in Japanese and Chinese as well as English. The toggle can be found in the upper right corner. We endeavor to release more languages in the future.

Correction
In the changelog for update 200 a fix was listed as:
“Fixed an exploit on Counterfeit where the cops could be manipulated with loot bags.”
This issue involved body bags not loot bags.


We are done with Mexico but more will come, stay tuned for more heisting next year and follow us on our social media accounts:
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You can also meet us and other heisters in the PAYDAY 2 Discord


Keep those helmets flying.
OVERKILL_Tobias OVERKILL - a Starbreeze Studio.

Update 200.1 Changelog
Update size: 262.2MB

General
  • Fixed an issue where some armor skins would display "invalid skin" instead of their safes name
  • Fixed minor skinning issues with the “Impresario” outfit
  • Fixed some roman numerals that were displayed incorrectly
  • Fixed a mismatch between name and description on the gloves “Fiery Hardtail” and “Sunset Hardtail”
  • Removed an extra period after the word "remain" in the infamy level up message
Weapons
  • Fixed an issue with Akimbo Brothers Grimm 12G Shotguns where weapon skins would cover the glass on the "LED combo" and "Assault Light" gadget mods.
  • Fixed an issue where the Maelstrom Sight was missing it’s textures in third person with HQ weapons turned off
Bulucs Mansion Heist
  • Fixed an issue where an ECM jammer could interrupt the flow of objectives
  • Fixed an issue that would cause Buluc to get stuck in a T-pose
  • Fixed an issue where the effect from the thermite would not disappear when the swat van drives into the front gate
  • Shortened the heist briefing for the Russian localization
  • Shortened the heist briefing for the Dutch localization
  • Added a waypoint for the car that is used for the loud escape
  • Added a waypoint for Bulucs office
  • Fixed an issue where Buluc would be immortal after getting shot with a grenade launcher
  • Prevented the guard from the lounge and library from leaving the area unless the heist goes loud
  • Added a waypoint to the keypad code
  • Switched the prompt for picking up the thermite from hold to press
  • Prevented the guard from the upper floor from leaving his intended patrol area
  • Fixed an issue where AI teammates would walk around the level if replacing a human player while in stealth
  • Fixed an issue where the sixth sense skill was not required to buy inside help preplanning assets
  • Fixed an issue where only parts of some characters show as highlighted if the player was standing at a distance
  • Increased the volume for the ticking and alarm for the bomb
  • Fixed a hole in the world geometry where the players could see the backdrop though the environment
  • Adjusted a misaligned wooden door between garage and utility room
  • Fixed an issue where the objective updated sound effect is played during the black screen
  • Added some extra trees to the backdrop
Other Levels
  • Added Missing Subtitle to day 1 of Hotline Miami
  • Disabled the interaction on dumpsters on San Martín Bank Holdout

Payday 2's latest update revamps the Infamy system and adds a new heist

Overkill's co-operative bank heist shooter Payday 2 has received a big batch of content to celebrate the game's two-hundredth update. The final chapter in the Silk Road saga is here, introducing a heist at Buluc's mansion, an expanded Infamy system, and much more.


The Infamy system has been updated to version 3.0, allowing you to reach a new max level with more rewards as you progress. There are 40 new infamous rewards being added to this update, with 35 additional items being made available in a future patch. These infamy-exclusive rewards can be unlocked retroactively, so don't worry if you've already made your way through the infamy ranks. There's also a slight tweak to the skill set system so now the first skill set will be reset when deciding to go infamous. Your other skill sets will be suspended, but as you progress and earn skill points, these will slowly become unlocked.


Vlad has tasked your crew to take down Buluc and the rest of the Coyopa Cartel. Taking place during a costume party (what are the odds!), Buluc's Mansion Heist gives you the option of going all guns blazing, or taking a slow and stealthy approach.


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PAYDAY 2: Update 200 - Crimson Shore

Hello Heisters!

As the sun sets over Mexico, our heisters are preparing for grave business and a final showdown. But it’s not all serious stuff we have in store. To celebrate Update 200, we’re also expanding the Infamy System! There’s some extra goodies with two new camouflage weapon colors, free for everyone to use. You will find the Urban Abstract and the Desert Pixel in the weapon color system on your next launch of the game.

Today we are releasing 4 sizzling hot DLCs, you can buy them individually or get a bargain and pick up the Buluc's Mansion Bundle

Vlad Wants to Settle a Score

Vlad has had enough with the Coyopa Cartel and their leader, Buluc. It is time to take him down. And who better to give this task to than you guys? In the Buluc’s Mansion Heist you can storm the gates of Buluc’s Mansion or sneak in like deadly scorpions. Either way you need to bring down the Coyopa Cartel. There are also two unlocks to claim, these will be up for grabs for anyone completing the associated achievements. Can you get your hands on the “Impresario” and the “Undead Peacock”?

Dirty Work Needs Nice and Shiny Hardware

Bring some new guns to the party with the Gunslinger Weapon Pack. The DLC offers a selection of three very different guns, there is something for everyone. Pick off your targets at range with the Bernetti Rangehitter Sniper Rifle, or clear a room efficiently with the Reinfeld 88 Shotgun. If you prefer the authentic gunslinger feel, try out the Frenchman Model 87 Revolver. Why not bring two, just in case?

They Say “Clothes Make the Heister”

Complete your look with Tailor Pack 3 containing 2 new outfits with 4 variants each. The Long Gentleman and the Duelist will sure make you look the part in the hot sands of Mexico. If you want to further expand your wardrobe, the pack also includes 8 new gloves, with variants, there are a total of 12 gloves in this pack. You have the option of tactical gloves, driving gloves, biker gloves and fancy leather gloves, just to name a few.

Put Some Shine on Your Gear

Is your weapon starting to look a bit dull and worse for wear? Or do you want your CAR-4 to be as blinged out as it feels awesome to shoot? With the Weapon Color Pack 3 you get 20 new weapon colors that can be applied to any gun. The pack contains vibrant colors with a shiny finish as well as color that shifts hue and some with rad patterns that will look awesome on your rifles, pistols or RPGs and whatever else you might be packing.

Infamy 3.0

As mentioned above, we are expanding the infamy system. If you are looking for another challenge, are a die hard completionist or are just looking for bragging rights, then this is for you. Infamy now has a new max level and will grant additional rewards as you progress. Starting today, you can become truly Infamous and unlock 4 color variants of a special infamy suit, 4 gloves and 16 weapon colors, all unique to the infamy system. You can also unlock a new item - Join Stingers. Additionally, there’s 16 new join sound effects to unlock where you can pick and choose the one most suitable to your style.

There are 40 new infamous rewards to unlock today and 35 more will be coming soon in a future update. You can still gain the ranks for the upcoming rewards and they will retroactively be available to you upon release.

We have also changed the order in which you unlock the infamy rewards. All rewards are now unlocked linearly. Any reward you’ve unlocked previously in the old system will stay unlocked in the new system. When going infamous for the first time all skill point reductions will be unlocked as a single reward for the first level of infamy.

With this update, we also made a slight change to how going infamous works. Every time you go infamous your first skill set (with “SET #1” as its default name) will be reset. All your other skill sets will be suspended. This means that they will keep all their skills but will be unavailable to you until you acquire skill points equal to that being used in the set. You can also choose to reset a suspended skill set before you have enough points. This will give you access to the set again, but since it’s reset, you will need to re-assign the skill points you have available. All profiles that used a skillset that got suspended will be assigned to use your first skill set instead. The profiles will keep any mask, outfit, or perk deck assigned to them.

Infamy Rank Display Mode

With the additional levels of Infamy we realize that some may find it hard to read the exact rank of your fellow heisters at a glance. Therefore, we have added an option to locally switch the display mode of the rank between roman and arabic numerals. If you're better at reading roman numerals than us, then you won't need this, but you will find these settings in the options menu under “User Interface”.

Hola Cuates

With the final chapter of our adventure south of the border, we bring one final little update for our South-American heisters. You will now be able to choose both European Spanish and Latin American Spanish as language options for the game. You will find these options in the PAYDAY 2 properties on steam.

We thank you, devoted Spanish translators, AstroZombie, Hoxi, NombreGenerico89, and ElCabe for all their hard work. It’s thanks to their efforts that we can bring both the European and Latin American versions of Spanish as language options to the game.

It’s a lot of text to translate the entire game if you find a typo or a text that runs too long. You can find our localization forum on steam where our translators jump in from now and then. https://steamcommunity.com/app/218620/discussions/20/

You can read more about the update and see some nice preview images of the content on our website: Update 200 Site

It is live, it is live, Update 200 is live!
OVERKILL_Tobias OVERKILL - a Starbreeze Studio.

Update 200 Changelog
Update size: 1.2GB

General
  • The crimespree catch up bonus will now only work for players at reputation level 100.
  • Fixed an issue with the "I Will Succeed With Dignity" achievement unlocking incorrectly when re-buying pre-planning assets.
  • Fixed an issue when starting a stealth level without casing mode, where Crew AI looked like they were holding invisible pistols.
  • Fixed an issue where an American dispatcher could be heard when Joy was used to answer guard pagers in non-American heists.
  • Added weapon color support to the anti-piracy system.
  • Fixed an issue where players would get stuck in a nearly infinite loading loop after switching between different profiles prior to readying up in the loadout screen.
  • Fixed an issue where some weapons were locked after going infamous without having a level lock.
  • Disabled Swedish as a language option in steam since the game is not translated to that language.
Levels
  • Fixed an issue on Boat Load Holdout where enemy AI would despawn within view of the player.
  • Fixed an issue on Big Bank Holdout where the player was able to access an out of bounds area through a window.
  • Fixed an issue on Big Bank where the AI would stutter while walking up the stairs near the entrance.
  • Fixed a Z-fighting issue on Border Crossing for the upstairs door frame in the overkill house.
  • Fixed an issue on Border Crossing where the glass of one of the trucks in the beginning was shown as blue and yellow on AMD graphics cards.
  • Fixed an issue on Border Crossing Day 2 where loot bags could be thrown into unreachable locations.
  • Fixed an issue in Breakfast in Tijuana where the police uniform could be picked up through the wall.
  • Fixed an issue in Breakfast in Tijuana where the car key tags would block the numbers on the wall.
  • Fixed an exploit on Counterfeit where the cops could be manipulated with loot bags.
  • Fixed a crash on Election Day Day 2 that could occur when lockpicking a door in the mall.
  • Fixed issue on First world Bank Holdout where players could use a bookshelf to avoid combat.
  • Fixed an issue on Framing Frame Day 3 where the ragdoll of a guard could fall down some stairs and make the pager unreachable.
  • Fixed an issue in the safehouse where the player could clip through the floor near the stairs.
  • Fixed an issue on San Martin Bank where an already opened gate would open a second time, when using the manager's key.
  • Fixed navigation issues on San Martin Bank in a security room.
  • Fixed navigation issues on San Martin inside the rooms on the roof.
  • Fixed an issue on San Martin Bank where some windows would not trigger the alarm when broken.
  • Fixed a graphical issue on San Martin Bank where the railing on the balcony just outside the cafeteria did not connect to the wall.
  • Fixed an issue on San Martin Bank Holdout where players were able to place sentry guns inside trash bins.
  • Fixed a navigation issue on Scarface Mansion where Crew AI could get temporarily stuck when the car drops through the roof.
  • Fixed a sound issue on Scarface Mansion where the same line of dialogue would trigger twice at the same time.
  • Fixed an art issue on Scarface Mansion where textures would display z-fighting issues with the carpets inside the mansion.
  • Fixed a collision on The Alesso Heist that could lead to the player being stuck behind a door on the upper floor.
  • Fixed a graphical issue on The Biker Heist with a ceiling decal.
Characters and Enemies
  • Fixed a texture issue on the helmet used by heavy SWATs.
  • Fixed an issue with Sangres' arms in first person with certain outfits.
  • Fixed clipping issues while wearing the “Scrub” Outfit.
  • Fixed clipping issues while wearing the “Tuxedo” Outfit.
  • Fixed clipping issues on "The Showman" suit on the arms for certain heisters.
Perk and Skills
  • Fixed an issue where the final perk for the Maniac deck would not work properly.
  • Fixed so that clients with the Sixth Sense skill can buy assets associated with the skill in pre-planning even if the host doesn't have the skill.
UI
  • Added a "NEW" indicator icon next to contractors with new available heists.
  • Fixed an issue where drop-in clients could "Buy All Assets" for a game already in progress.
  • Fixed an issue with misleading stats when equipping a speed pull magazine.
  • Fixed a rendering issue with the XL 5.56 Microgun when equipping a weapon color.
  • Fixed an issue where masks were not centered on the screen when previewing.
  • Fixed an issue where the client's UI would not update pager count correctly, when the host would dominate an NPC and answer the pager.
Weapons
  • Fixed a graphical issue on the Commando 101 Rocket Launcher when using weapon colors.
  • Fixed a missing animation with the Akimbo Judge Shotguns when aiming down sight immediately after firing.
  • Fixed an issue with automatic weapons where two bullet fire sounds would play while only one bullet was fired.
  • Fixed Z-fighting on certain patterns when using the tropical foregrip on the M60 Light Machine Gun.

Updates may be incompatible with the mods you may have installed. Even seemingly unrelated mods may cause unexpected issues.

If you are experiencing any issues with the game; try removing any mods you may have installed and try again.